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It's a way to open up a dialogue and, when used predicatively, it acts like a weather report, letting you know when to carry an umbrella or when to apply the suntan lotion.
Moments before it is the customer's turn to speak with an agent, the system predicatively places the return call, connects with the customer and transfers him or her to the head of the line as a the properly skilled agent is concluding the preceding call.
Apparently, the distance between a noun and an adjective that is added when an adjective is used predicatively accounts for the tendency to use indirect connections only attributively.
 
 
 
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